Advocacy in print

Online sources for merits, amicus and petitions granted briefs

This comprehensive database includes over 10 million scanned pages from documents submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, including briefs and petitions as well as oral transcripts, memoranda, and other types of filings. The database covers 75,000 cases, including cases for which the Court did not issue a full opinion, and is searchable by keyword in full-text, as well as by case name and U.S. Reports citation. To access this database, you must have a valid Loyola user ID and password.

ProQuest's Supreme Court Insight provides a complete online collection of full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including per curiam decisions, dockets, oral arguments, joint appendices, and amicus briefs, with all documents available as fully-searchable PDF files. Coverage goes back as far as 1975. Supreme Court Insight is a companion product to and offers links from case-specific records to Legislative Insight and Regulatory Insight. Access is available on campus, or off campus with a valid Loyola ID and password.

For more detailed information on how to search Supreme Court Insight, ProQuest has assembled a user’s guide, found at http://proquest.libguides.com/supremecourtinsight/.

Briefs on Lexis, Westlaw, and Bloomberg Law

Lexis's U.S. Supreme Court Briefs database provides access to merit and amicus briefs from 1936 through the current term, including merit briefs for cases granted certiorari and special masters, amicus curiae briefs, and joint appendices beginning in January 1979, with selected coverage from 1936. All briefs are available for cases granted certiorari beginning after the 1993-1994 term, and it also includes briefs petitioning for certiorari in civil cases (other than habeas cases) from the 1999-2000 term through current. For civil cases where cert. is denied, briefs are provided for cases on the paid docket but are not provided for cases on the In Forma Pauperis docket. No cert-stage briefs are provided for habeas cases or for criminal cases that are summarily decided or where cert. is denied.